poem (for velina)
Jan 25, 2021
the night breaks, and i’m awake.
she sighs and my soul dies, a little.
but life is just rooms, she says.
room after room after room.
so that i can always escape.
I have an MFA in fiction and have written for many publicatons, including The Huffington Post, AOL, Sundance Channel TV, and The Paris Review Online.